Albert white



(No Model.)

' A. WHITE.

, GOAT AND HAT HOOK. No. 505,209. Patented 863511119, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT WHITE, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK TAYLOR, OFSAME PLACE.

COAT AND HAT HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,209, datedSeptember 19, 1893. Application filed October 12, 1891. SerialNo.408,430. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT WHITE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inCoat and Hat Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to coat and hat hooks and consists in a coat andhat hook formed of asingle wire and having an attaching point, an upperhook, an inclined brace under said upper hook, and a lower hook, belowsaid brace, and having a supporting point which extends rearwardly fromthe back of said lower hook between the ends of said Wire and is struckup from the body of said wire, substantially as hereinafter describedand claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of thesimplest form of a coat and hat hook constructed in accordance with myinvention; Fig. 2, a side elevationof the same except that the upperpart of the device instead of being straight and horizontal isrepresented with a vertical offset.

To form my improved coat and hat hook a wire WV, straight in thefirstinstance, of suitable diameter and length is pointed at one end, ata, to form an attaching-point, and near said point may be provided withbarbs a which hook in the opposite direction from that in which thepoint extends to allow said point and barbs to be forced or driven intoa wall or othersuitable support and to prevent the withdrawal of saidpoint from such support. From the attaching point a the wire extendshorizontally in a hook formed of wire and having a supporting-pointwhich extends rearwardly from the back thereof, between the ends of thewire and is struck up from the body of said wire, and also forward in astraight line, at A, for a considerable distance and is then bent upwardand forward, at b, and looped downward to or neartothe under side of thehorizontal part A, toform a hat hook B. From the hat hook B the wireextends backward and downward, preferably in a straight line to form aninclined brace O and, at d, is bent vertically downward to form asuitable back D to rest against the vertical supporting wall or surface.Below the back D from the point ethewireis curved forward and upward toform a coat hook E and the end portion of the wire is curved downward,at e, to form a suitable bearing for a coat or other garment or article,the extreme end of the wire, at 8 being rounded, to prevent piercing andtearing articles suspended thereon. All the parts of the above-describedhook are represented as lying in the same vertical plane.

The above described construction is not essentially new, the novelty ofmy invention consisting mainly in the supporting-point F, which isformed by cutting into the wire, as with a chisel, to form a long barbor point at the back of the part D, said point F being then bentbackward horizontally. The under side of the point B is flat and whendriven into the supporting-wall prevents the sagging of the lower hook Eand also prevents the turning of the hook laterally aboutitsattaching-point.

If desired, the upper part A of the hook, instead of being straight, asshown in Fig. 1, may have a vertical offset a in a well known manner,adapted to, be struck by a hammer to assist in securing the device toits support.

I claim as my invention- 1. A hook formed of wire andhavingasupporting-point which extends rearwardly from the back thereof,between the ends of the wire and is raised from the body of said wire,as and for the purpose specified.

2. A coat and hat hook formed of wire and having an attaching-point, anupper book, an inclined brace under said upper hook and a lower hook,below said brace, and having a supporting'point which extends rearwardlyfrom the back of said lower hook between the ends of said Wire and israised from the body of said wire, as and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification,in the presence oftwo attesting witnesses, this 16th day of July, A. D. 1891.

ALBERT WHITE. Witnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, CHARLES F. PARKER.

